And the Lord’s slave must not engage in heated disputes but be kind toward all, an apt teacher, patient,

For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my imprisonment.

and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day! And you know very well all the ways he served me in Ephesus.

as well as the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I endured these persecutions and the Lord delivered me from them all.

He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,